Guardian27154

[yellow11]

help please and parsing
17a tack on,holding woman back from arrest 9 ????E???D
20a unique device for returning culture to nameless country 9 starts t-
23a slowcoach,tedious and fat,overlapping 7 starts d
25a checking out cultural phenomenon involving swindle 14 ?????????S???E
thanks

[scorpiojo]

Appre hen(woman) d
Tra (art De(n)mark
Dul(l)lard
Verisimilitude

[scorpiojo]

Oops, not verisimilitude..

Re con naissance

[Toorak]

17 apprehend
Append with her reversed inside
20 Trademark
Art reversed + de(n)mark
23 dullard
Dul( l) lard
25 reconnaissance
Renaissance with con inside

[Lie-in King]

17a Apprehend - 'her' (back, in) 'append' (tack on)
20a Trademark - 'art' (returning) + 'De(n)mark'
23a Dul-l-ard - the central 'L' overlaps both words
25a Reconnaissance - 'con' (swindle, in) 'renaissance'

[scorpiojo]

Try again... app reh(her) end

[yellow11]

many thanks